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piratejournal2014-05-23 10:50 am
rebonding) wrote in piratejournal2014-05-23 10:50 am
Entry tags:
- akira inugami,
- bolin,
- korra,
- mako,
- marco,
- naesala,
- phoenix ikki,
- wan
6th wave | voice
What do you guys do when you start to miss home? Or... worry about the people and the responsibilities you left behind, even though everything is supposed to be all right?
[Everyone's in the same situation, so Korra doesn't feel so weird admitting that she's missing home. She's lucky, she realizes, that she has friends that she made both at home and here to keep her company. But still...
It's not home.]
[Everyone's in the same situation, so Korra doesn't feel so weird admitting that she's missing home. She's lucky, she realizes, that she has friends that she made both at home and here to keep her company. But still...
It's not home.]
[Voice]
I have to admit, it's a little strange to go from being so famous at it to a virtually unknown again though, eh?
[Voice]
[Korra can't help but laugh.]
I get here and the first thing I start asking is if anyone's a bender. Everyone knows who the Avatar is, back home. Now I just piss off the Navy.
[Voice]
Ah, I just came from a war with the world. If anything it's funnier to have a fresh start with the navy here. Well. Fresher, I guess. Since it's not like we're even allowed to go peacefully on our way even if wanted, eh?
[Voice]
[A hint of annoyance in her voice, there. Sure, Korra has a tendency to solve things with brute force, but she'd rather not be at war with the people here for something she didn't even do.]
That doesn't make me want to give them a chance to talk things out.
[Voice]
[Voice]
[Voice]
My father taught me a lot about what it means to be the strongest person in the whole world. If someone hurts this crew, or ever comes between me and my brothers, I'll be ruthless and harsh, but vengeance doesn't mean anything when applied indiscriminately.
Pops let everyone he could, get away. So that they could get stronger and learn better. Even if it meant they'd come back to fight us, that was part of his pride, that no matter what, he'd be stronger even when they came back.
I am not as gentle as him. My father's heart was as big and deep as the ocean herself, and I can't even aspire to that, but the very least I can do is try to make sure my brothers and I live up to the reputation he forged in a way even he would be proud of, eh.
There are two sides to that coin. Letting people survive sends a message about our strength and means that anyone we do have to kill crossed an unforgivable line. But it does mean they can come back, and they will. Now that my father's gone, all his enemies I've had to inherit, and sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be easier if they had been murdered instead. But then I also inherited my father's friends and allies, and we wouldn't have half of them if he hadn't let so many people go. Even, including Ace.
So I'm curious what gives your conviction in that such strength if you really believe it to be true.
[Voice]
[Korra pauses for a moment.]
It's not about needing personal gratification. It's about making them pay for what they've done.
[All of this isn't exactly something she enjoys discussing, either. She knows that there are holes in her thinking, but she isn't going to admit it.]
Wiping out an entire navy isn't the point. The point is finding the people responsible and doing whatever it takes to make sure that they won't do it again. And to make them know that we're not going to get pushed around.
[Voice]
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Just because I don't think they should get away with it doesn't mean I think we should be charging in and slaughtering them. I hate the Navy as much as anyone else, and... a year ago, I would've been all for it. But that just didn't feel right.
[Voice]
Our father taught us that revenge only carries the weight it does, when carried out very specifically.
I've let a lot of men go as a consequence, and there are those that have come back to haunt me as well. I don't regret that, but if simply killed an entire base it'd be meaningless. Stopping the ones who crossed a line is more important, wouldn't you say?
[Voice]
[Sure, Ace has his moments when he surprises her, but...]
[Voice]
You should have seen him in his wild days.
He's come a long way. Not to say he doesn't have more to go, but he's a lot more in control of his temper and fire than you think.